Re: Latest freetds version upgrade

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:46:29 +0100

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Il giorno ven 18 ott 2019 alle ore 10:30 Panos Stavroulis via FreeTDS <
[email protected]> ha scritto:

>
> Hi,
> We are upgrading our sql server 2008 to 2016, we will first set the
> compatibility level to 100 ie to 2008 to minimise any issues with the
> migration from 2008 to 2016. We are using version 0.95.18 of freetds.
> Do we need to migrate to the latest version of freetds to be able to use
> it with sql server 2016 or it will work anyway. Reading through the
> documentation it says that our current freetds version should work with sql
> server 2016.
> Thanks very much.
> Best regards
>
> Panos.
>
> Hi,
   it should work. Or better is the database that should keep working with
old FreeTDS as Microsoft keeps protocol compatibility.

Regards,
  Frediano